1/7An excellent piece by @FayeBrownSky that lays bare the sinister behaviour of @HMRCgovuk in circumventing the sham Morse review to pursue innocent taxpayers ensnared in #LoanCharge schemes. The underhandedness of the HMRC approach cannot be overstated.

news.sky.com/story/hmrc-acc… 2/7 In 2017, at the time #hmrc was duping MPs and Parliament into legislating a retrospective tax change with a 20 year lookback, they were also concocting controversial changes to existing PAYE regulations, amending those rules retrospectively to give themselves yet another

1/7 There's been coverage recently highlighting the activities of Doug Barrowman, husband of @MichelleMone , who made £100m by industrialising tax avoidance schemes that have led to suicide and despair for a % of the 65,000 people facing punitive HMRC action with #LoanCharge 2/7 Further action being taken via discretion HMRC claims it has to transfer PAYE liability to employees. The point has been made about the lack of serious action against individuals engaged as tax advisors or promoters who enrolled victims in these fraudulent schemes. A company

1/4 I made an FOI in 2021 when it became known that Jim Harra had sought support from HMRC SOLS on the "strength of HMRCs claim". whatdotheyknow.com/request/email_…
This requested correspondence between Jim and SOLS for a 3 month period 2/4 This was refused by HMRC citing Sections 31 &42 of FOI. I subsequently raised an official case with @ICOnews in Oct 2021 contesting HMRCs use of these and questioning whether the public interest test had been correctly applied. I've received a response from ICO. Pages 1 - 4